Ashley John Pigford is an artist, designer, musician and educator who works across a wide range of media including kinetic sculpture, interactive installation, performance and print. He is employed by the University of Delaware as Assistant Professor of Visual Communications, in the Department of Art, where he teaches students to understand and utilize their own individual creative process through the avenues of graphic design and typography. Ashley maintains an active studio practice where he engages in a heuristic study of interaction design and electronic sculpture.

Ashley received his Masters Degree from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2006 after a successful career as a proprietor of graphic design in Los Angeles, CA. His ideas about the value of a kinesthetic approach to design education have been published in many international publications and his artwork has been exhibited around the world. He is an active speaker at many art and design conferences and is currently involved in numerous inter-disciplinary collaborative projects.

Areas of Specialty & Interest:

Interaction Design, Graphic Design, Typography, Letterpress, Hybrid-Media, Sound Art, Installation, Micro-Electronics, Video, Kinetic Sculpture, Phenomenology and Creative/Design Methodology.